Papers, 1808-1962.

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Papers, 1808-1962.

Personal, family, and business correspondence, business papers, broadsides, land papers, legal documents, and other papers. Includes land papers (1808-1855) of Samuel Lander (1833-1904) in Lincoln County, N.C.; papers of Ernest McPherson Lander (1877-1962), relating to his position as secretary-treasurer of Calhoun Mills, Calhoun Falls, S.C., and his activities with the Methodist Church, Calhoun Highway Association, the public schools of Calhoun Falls, S.C., and Lander College; and correspondence of Ernest M. Lander's daughter's in-laws, Benjamin Franklin Jones (1850-1934) and Eva Caroline Hinds Jones (1860-1948), of Georgetown, S.C. Other correspondents include James Francis Byrnes, Fred H. Dominick, Benjamin B. Gossett, James P. Gossett, Butler B. Hare, Burnet B. Maybank, Thomas G. McLeod, John McKee Nickles, John Marvin Rast, Henry Nelson Snyder, Ransome Judson Williams, and John O. Willson. Other places represented include Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8336179

South Carolina Newspaper Project

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Calhoun Highway Association (S.C.)

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Hare, Butler B. (Butler Black), 1875-1967

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U.S. Representative from S.C.'s Second District from 1925 to 1933 and the Third District from 1939 to 1947; Hare is noted for having authored the Philippine Independence Act; native of Edgefield County, S.C.; son of James Hare and Elizabeth Black Hare; married Kate Etheredge, 1906; resident of Saluda, S.C. From the description of Butler B. Hare papers, c. 1900-1966. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 50032888 ...

Snyder, Henry Nelson, 1865-1949

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Calhoun Mills (Calhoun Falls, S.C.)

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Lander, Ernest McPherson, 1877-1962

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McLeod, Thomas G. (Thomas Gordon), 1868-1932

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Two term governor of S.C., 1923-1927; b. Lynchburg, S.C., son of William James and Amanda (Rogers) McLeod; married Elizabeth Alford, 1902. From the description of Thomas G. McLeod papers, 1924-1926. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 49807565 Two-term governor of South Carolina; b. 17 Dec. 1868, Lynchburg, S.C.; son of William James and Amanda Rogers McLeod; graduate of Wofford College, 1892; admitted to S.C. Bar, 1896; S.C. House of Representatives, 1900-19...

Williams, Ransome Judson, 1892-1970

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Gossett, Benjamin B. (Benjamin Brown), 1884-1951

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Lander College

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Lander family.

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Jones, Benjamin Franklin, 1850-1934

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Willson, John O. (John Owens), 1845-1923

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President of Lander College and Methodist minister of Greenwood, S.C.; during Civil War, left The Citadel in June 1862, for military service in the Confederate Army; in 1872, Lander a opened private school for young women in Williamston (Anderson County, S.C.), an institution later known as Lander College; husband of Kathleen Lander Willson, the daughter of Samuel Lander (1833-1904); J.O. Willson died, 1923, in Greenwood, S.C.; son of physician John Willson (1805-1856) and Sara Owens Wilson (182...

Jones, Eva Caroline Hinds, 1860-1948

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Gossett, James P. (James Pleasant), 1860-1936

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Maybank, Burnet R. (Burnet Rhett), 1899-1954

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U.S. Senator, 1941-1954, and governor of S.C., 1939-1941; Democrat; born in Charleston, S.C.; served in U.S. Navy during World War I; mayor of Charleston, S.C., 1931-38; married, in 1923, to Elizabeth de Rossett Myers (d. 1947) and, in 1948, to Mary Randolph Pelzer Cecil; father of Burnet Rhett Maybank (b.1924). From the description of Scrapbook, 1947-1950. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 64576774 Burnet R. Maybank was elected to the United States Senate ...

Rast, John Marvin, 1897-

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Lander, S. (Samuel), 1833-1904

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Samuel Lander was a Methodist clergyman and educator; in 1872, he opened a private school for young women in Williamston, S.C.; he served as president of Lander College [now Lander University] until his death in 1904. From the description of Copyright for "Our own Primary Arithmetic, by S. Lander A.M.," 1863 Nov. 26 (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 61695415 ...

Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972

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James F. Byrnes was born on May 2, 1882, in Charleston, South Carolina, to Elizabeth McSweeney and James Byrnes. On May 2, 1906, he married Maude Busch, who was born in Aiken, SC, on October 22, 1883. Byrnes was elected Court Solicitor of the Second District in 1908; U.S. Congressman from 1911-1925; U.S. Senator from 1931-1941. He was appointed to serve as a Justice of U.S. Supreme Court 1941-1942. He also served as Director of the Office of Economic Stabilization, 1942; Director of the Office o...

Nickles, John McKee, 1876-1958

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Dominick, Fred H. (Fred Haskell), 1877-1960

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